James Purefoy

James Purefoy

Date of Birth: 03 Jun 1964

Country: UK

Biography: James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome. He has also appeared as Laertes in Hamlet at the Bristol Old Vic (1991) Brian in William Gaminara's Back Up the Hearse and Let them Sniff the Flowers at the Hampstead Theatre (1992), Roland Maule in Noel Coward's Present Laughter at the Globe Theatre (1993), Biff in Death of a Salesman, alongside Ken Stott and Jude Law, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (1994)...(wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Actor)

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    A Knight\
    Set in medieval times, this is the oddball, sometimes awe-inspiring story of a rookie (Ledger) discovering if he is the stuff of which legends are made. (Columbia Pictures)
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    Mansfield Park
    At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy... (imdb)
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    Maybe Baby
    A romantic comedy about Sam and Lucy, a loving married couple who seem to have it all -- good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The one thing they lack is what they really want -- a baby. (USA Films)
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    Resident Evil
    A secret experiment...a deadly virus...a fatal mistake. Based on the wildly popular video game series, Resident Evil is an action-packed thriller starring Milla Jovovich in a battle of good and evil, human versus computer, the living against the Undead. (Sony Pictures)
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    Vanity Fair
    Mira Nair's film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackery introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating heroine Becky Sharp (Witherspoon). (Focus Features)
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    George and the Dragon
    The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life... (imdb)
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    Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
    A documentary from the Oscar-winning director of 'Touching the Void'
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    Solomon Kane
    A mercenary who owes his soul to the devil redeems himself by fighting evil. (imdb)
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    Ironclad
    In 13th century a determined group of Knights Templar defends Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John. (imdb)
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    Lighthouse
    After escaping from a prison ship, Leo Rook, the most notorious killer in all of Europe, absconds to the Gehenna Rocks off the coast of Northern England and overtakes the lighthouse. Viciously, he brings ashore a prison ship and hunts down its passengers. One by one the shipwrecked go missing, until only two are left--a convicted killer and a brilliant female criminal psychologist who must now team up to take Rook down in this tense, bone-chilling thriller by first-time director Simon Hunter. (LoveFilm)
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    John Carter
    Transplanted to Mars, a Civil War vet discovers a lush planet inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess who is in desperate need of a savior. (imdb)
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    Blessed
    A fertility clinic visit becomes an unfathomable nightmare for a woman who's impregnated with the devil's DNA.
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    Injustice
    Injustice (2011) - TV Mini-Series
    On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister happily living with his wife in rural Suffolk. However, Travers is still recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his belief in the legal system. (imdb)
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    Camelot
    Camelot (2011) - TV Series
    King Uther dies suddenly. Britain is facing chaos. The sorcerer Merlin appoints the not so known son and heir Arthur as the king who was raised as a commoner, but his half sister has other plans. Arthur faces tough times and will be tested beyond imagination. (imdb (skr))
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    Feast of July
    After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result. (imdb)
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    The Tide of Life
    The Tide of Life (1996) - TV Mini-Series
    Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
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    Wicked Blood
    Wicked Blood (2014) - Direct-to-Video
    Hannah Lee Baker is a bright teen girl trapped in the dark Southern underworld of violence and guns. All live in fear of Uncle Frank Stinson, who runs the illegal family business with an iron fist, aided by his psychotic younger brother Bobby. Things change for the worse when Amber falls in love with Wild Bill, a meth trafficker who finds himself at war with Frank. Hannah realizes the only way to save her family is by cleverly scheming to pit one pawn against another in a cunning chess game.
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    The Mayor of Casterbridge
    A farmhand makes the impulsive, drunken decision to sell his wife and child to the highest bidder, but soon lives to regret it, vowing to give up alcohol and become a wealthy, powerful man. Twenty-one years on, he has done just that, taking up office as the Mayor of Casterbridge - only for his life to be turned upside down by the reappearance of the wife and daughter he sold years before.
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    Rome
    Rome (2005) - TV Series
    A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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    High Rise
    Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control. (imdb)
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    The Following
    The Following (2013) - TV Series
    A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command. (imdb)
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    Momentum
    Alex, a mysterious thief, is pulled in by her former partner for one last heist. She quickly finds it was never just about the diamonds. A brutal murder sparks a cat and mouse chase between Alex and a master assassin. Now she must uncover the lies behind the heist and discover the secrets behind the men who have made her a target. (imdb)
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    Hap and Leonard
    Set in the late 1980's, Hap and Leonard is a darkly comic swamp noir of two best friends, one femme fatale, a crew of washed up revolutionaries, a pair of murderous psycho killers, some lost loot, and the fuzz. (imdb)
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    Women Talking Dirty
    A lively, outspoken single mother in Edinburgh, Scotland, develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist. (imdb)
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    Roots
    Roots (2016) - TV Mini-Series
    An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants. (imdb)
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    A Dance to the Music of Time
    Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television. (imdb)
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    Equity
    Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.
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    Churchill
    A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
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    Interlude in Prague
    The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years. (imdb)
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    Altered Carbon
    Altered Carbon (2018) - TV Series
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    Fisherman\
    Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. (imdb)
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    Limbo
    A murderer finds himself on trial in Hell, caught between a bitter prosecutor and an inexperienced defense attorney.
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    It\
    It's Me, Sugar (2018) - Short Film
    A recounting of the making of 'Some Like It Hot' starring Marilyn Monroe and directed by Billy Wilder - now regarded as one of the great comedies in the history of cinema. During filming, Marilyn was required to knock on a hotel room door and say the line: 'It's me. Sugar.' With Wilder; her co-stars, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and her husband, Arthur Miller, looking on, Marilyn finally nails the line - e...after 47 takes. "Showtime"
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    Frankenstein
    Frankenstein (2007) - TV Movie
    A gripping re-telling of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece. Set a few years into the future, Dr Victoria Frankenstein works on an advanced stem cell research project. (imdb)
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    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    In the mid 19th Century, an enigmatic young woman moves to Yorkshire with a young son. Distancing herself from everyone in the village and their prying questions, she remains totally aloof until a charming neighbor farmer gets her to reveal her past through his persistence. Only then does she reveal she is hiding away from a womanizing, belittling husband. (imdb)
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    Fisherman\
    A sequel to the hit U.K film.
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    Marie Antoinette
    Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. (imdb)
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    Mr. Monk\
    It follows Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He returns to solve one last case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.
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    Goose on the Loose
    The tale of Randall, a neurotic talking goose, who is kidnapped by Congreve Maddox (, the principal of the local elementary school. Maddox plans to fatten up Randall so that he can cook the bird and enter him in a culinary contest in Banff, Alberta. Together with his sister, Emily, and some classmates, the sensitive boy Will hatches a plot: they'll kidnap Congreve's mother and arrange a hostage exchange for the goose. (imdb)
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    The Philanthropist
    "The Philanthropist" chronicles the heroic adventures of a billionaire playboy-turned-vigilante/philanthropist. James Purefoy stars as Teddy Rist, a successful tycoon whose life is forever changed after rescuing a young boy during a hurricane in the Nigerian town he was visiting. Spontaneous and impulsive, Rist and quickly decides to channel his passion, power, and money into helping those in need. (imdb)
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    The Veil
    The Veil (2024) - TV Mini-Series
    Follows the relationship between two women playing a deadly game of truth and lies. One woman has a secret, and the other has a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. (imdb)
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    The Candidate
    The Candidate (2020) - TV Series
    Wayne Addison, a veteran CIA officer returns to Mexico City to take down the country's most powerful drug dealer: Rafael Bautista. (imdb)
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    The Summit
    The Summit (2008) - TV Mini-Series
    Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a corrupt pharmaceutical company. (imdb)
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